Agostino Carracci
Allen J. Grieco
Amateur Pornography
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Cecilia Cristellon
Cortigiane Oneste
Decency Threshold
Donatio Propter Nuptias
Early Modern Pornography
Elite Courtesans
Enea Vico
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Erotic Culture
Erotic Engravings
Erotic Prints
Erotic Subject Matter
Flora Dennis
Gonzaga Court
Guido A. Guerzoni
Guido Guerzoni
Guido Ruggiero
Informal Unions
Maiolica Dish
Maiolica Plate
Marta Ajmar-Wollheim
Mercato Nuovo
Molly Bourne
morality
Morality Prints
Popular Pornography
Print Market
prints
Sara F. Matthews-Grieco
Sonetti Lussuriosi
Sparrow Hawk
Tametsi Decree
Tessa Storey
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9781138265578
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 174 x 246mm
- Publication Date: 31 Mar 2017
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Concentrating largely on the 'middle ranks' of society in Renaissance Italy - artisans, merchants, and professionals such as bankers and lawyers - this book focuses on new social subjects, new documents and unusual objects. Using innovative methods of inquiry and interdisciplinary analytical tools, contributors explore a little-known but pervasive erotic culture in which sexually explicit artefacts, games and gestures were considered essential to a number of rituals and social occasions. At the same time, they demonstrate how a burgeoning market for erotica, along with a cultural tradition of allusion and innuendo, played an increasingly important role in the Italian peninsula between the fifteenth and early seventeenth centuries. This volume fills some pervasive lacunae in both Renaissance studies and the history of sexuality through a series of critical engagements with material culture and social custom. It reflects recent scholarly interest in interdisciplinary areas such as the material Renaissance, visual communications, urban sociability in the domestic context, and court records regarding marital disputes.
Sara F. Matthews-Grieco is Professor of History and Co-ordinator of Women's & Gender Studies at Syracuse University in Florence, Italy.
